[wardaddy]

oddly ...i walked 4 miles just now listening to NPR....I know ...I know.

but even they made tacit acknowledgment of the possibility that:

A) these were terrorists....although they used terms like hostage taker and militant.

B) that the terrs were heavily influenced by Islamicism and that this larger more perhaps nihilistic aim had now superseded Chechnyan independence as a first goal.

C) That Arabs may have been there...

D) The Chechnyans have been radicalized and are now aligned somewhat with AQ and they were in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

NPR still sucks and hated admitting that maybe Putin had been right all along.

[Travis McGee]

If NPR is admitting it....